A good topic for Mythbusters

[David Hardie]

In article <42635e9e$0$5398$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, "Kath"
<kathnews2@optusnet.ieatspam.com.au.dud> wrote:

HeadRush wrote:
"HERC777" <herc777@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1113803860.318266.232530@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
YEP I'm in for that... If the guys tour aus send em up really!

Aus Skeptics and all the rest are no shows.

Of course when you find out I AM the truman (why else call it TRUE)
there'll be a change in pecking order around here.

Actually, I'd say you will RUE every psychotic post you ever made if
they did investigate your claims.

He'd just claim that what they saw and heard was altered by the US
government by sending signals from a satellite straight into their brains...

Well I'm safe, since I'm wearing a metal colander on my head today.
Otherwise, I'd be thinking like everyoneelse and we just cant have that!

D.

 

[Adam Law]

"David Hardie" <davidlh@nospam.optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:davidlh-1804051719300001@d211-31-93-242.dsl.nsw.optusnet.com.au...

In article <IkH8e.78$eX2.2181@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au>, "Chock" <no@spam.com
wrote:

"I Caught Kate" <sittinginthepool@internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:42633F50.B07CED8D@internode.on.net...
Chock wrote:

"I Caught Kate" <sittinginthepool@internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:42633DCA.FC8F0889@internode.on.net...
A good topic for mythbusters might possibly be
the myth that mobile phones are dangerous at
petrol stations

They did that already.

- Chock.



Shit I missed it


From memory, they concluded that the mobile phone transmissions are not
the
cause, but static electricity build-up from clothes, etc being discharged
on
the pump nozzle.

That's the way that I remember it as well. They tried several times to get
a spark from a mobile phone to ignite some petrol fumes. I think 'Buster'
(See note 1) eventually got toasted but by a spark from static
electricity.

D.

Note 1: Does 'Buster' have a fan web site?

D.

http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/html/buster.html

 

[David Hardie]

In article <42637f1b$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au>, "Adam Law"
<adam_law_adsl@hotkeyNOSPAM.net.au> wrote:

Note 1: Does 'Buster' have a fan web site?

D.

http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/html/buster.html

Yeah!

Buster rocks!!!!!!

D.

 

[Ken Taylor]

"Luke Webber" <luke@webber.com.au> wrote in message
news:426353c4$1_2@news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com...

Chock wrote:

From memory, they concluded that the mobile phone transmissions are not
the
cause, but static electricity build-up from clothes, etc being
discharged on
the pump nozzle.

Yup. The tip-off was that most pump fires have been started by women.
You see, you normally discharge static when you step out of the car whil
holding onto the door. But some women have a tendency to get back in the
car to get their money out of their purses, then to get out again
without touching the door, because it's already open.

Luke

"Most" fires but only "some" women.....sounds like a myth being made to
match the result.

Ken

 

[HeadRush]

"David Hardie" <davidlh@nospam.optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:davidlh-1804051728090001@d211-31-93-242.dsl.nsw.optusnet.com.au...

Well I'm safe, since I'm wearing a metal colander on my head today.
Otherwise, I'd be thinking like everyoneelse and we just cant have that!

Save the collander for the pasta, make one of these -
http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html

HR

 

[AJ]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:12:40 +1000, "Chock" <no@spam.com> wrote:

Shit I missed it


From memory, they concluded that the mobile phone transmissions are not the
cause, but static electricity build-up from clothes, etc being discharged on
the pump nozzle.

- Chock.

Thats one issue with mythbusters though and that is that they cannot
replicate all the possible sonarios to test the myth or not. Some yes,
but a lot no. With the mobile phone issue the issue is the mobile
generating a spark with enough grunt to ignite the fuel vapor. The
chances of that happening would be so slim its not funny, so how would
you acuratly re-create it to prove one way or the other.

For mine I think they are over reacting quite a bit with this one.
As pointed out there are other causes of sparks that occour more often
then a mobile phone, or CB radio. Even some of the things that happen
under the bonnet have a potential too.

 

[Highlandish]

Quoth The Raven "David Hardie"<davidlh@nospam.optusnet.com.au> in
davidlh-1804051728090001@d211-31-93-242.dsl.nsw.optusnet.com.au

In article <42635e9e$0$5398$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, "Kath"
kathnews2@optusnet.ieatspam.com.au.dud> wrote:

HeadRush wrote:
"HERC777" <herc777@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1113803860.318266.232530@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
YEP I'm in for that... If the guys tour aus send em up really!

Aus Skeptics and all the rest are no shows.

Of course when you find out I AM the truman (why else call it
TRUE) there'll be a change in pecking order around here.

Actually, I'd say you will RUE every psychotic post you ever made if
they did investigate your claims.

He'd just claim that what they saw and heard was altered by the US
government by sending signals from a satellite straight into their
brains...

Well I'm safe, since I'm wearing a metal colander on my head today.
Otherwise, I'd be thinking like everyoneelse and we just cant have
that!

D.

i'm wearing my mirror tile armour of invisibility +4 with a +2 save so the
satelites dont see me.

--
On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.

Take out the _CURSEING to reply to me

 

[Highlandish]

Quoth The Raven "AJ"<jc373@hotmail.com.au> in
8d2761tkm4nbgi2fd9lftpl8qd508mp7un@4ax.com

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:12:40 +1000, "Chock" <no@spam.com> wrote:



Shit I missed it


From memory, they concluded that the mobile phone transmissions are
not the cause, but static electricity build-up from clothes, etc
being discharged on the pump nozzle.

- Chock.


Thats one issue with mythbusters though and that is that they cannot
replicate all the possible sonarios to test the myth or not. Some yes,
but a lot no. With the mobile phone issue the issue is the mobile
generating a spark with enough grunt to ignite the fuel vapor. The
chances of that happening would be so slim its not funny, so how would
you acuratly re-create it to prove one way or the other.

For mine I think they are over reacting quite a bit with this one.
As pointed out there are other causes of sparks that occour more often
then a mobile phone, or CB radio. Even some of the things that happen
under the bonnet have a potential too.

I believe they failed to test this myth by not having "auto-answer" turned
on. so all the phone did is ring, but if it answered a different level of
charge would have been emitted. I don't know if it still would have been
enough to spark, but they didn't try.

--
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. - Leo J.
Burke

Take out the _CURSEING to reply to me

 

[Sir Nigel Puke-Fuui]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:33:50 +1000, "Highlandish" <ckreskay_CURSEING@dodo.com.au> wrote:

Quoth The Raven "I Caught Kate"<sittinginthepool@internode.on.net> in
42633DCA.FC8F0889@internode.on.net
A good topic for mythbusters might possibly be
the myth that mobile phones are dangerous at
petrol stations

And hospital waiting rooms (not a myth)

They worry about traces of medical oxygen.

 

[Chock]

"David Hardie" <davidlh@nospam.optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:davidlh-1804051726170001@d211-31-93-242.dsl.nsw.optusnet.com.au...

In article <426353c4$1_2@news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com>, Luke Webber
luke@webber.com.au> wrote:

Chock wrote:

From memory, they concluded that the mobile phone transmissions are not
the
cause, but static electricity build-up from clothes, etc being
discharged on
the pump nozzle.

Yup. The tip-off was that most pump fires have been started by women.
You see, you normally discharge static when you step out of the car whil
holding onto the door. But some women have a tendency to get back in the
car to get their money out of their purses, then to get out again
without touching the door, because it's already open.

Luke

I thought that the theory was this: That under the right conditions a
static charges will build up in a car. It was happening in mine and i
fixed it by installing a static strap which grounds the car. However, if
there is a charge built up in the car it can ground itself through the
nozzle on the bowezer which results in a spark which can ignite vapours at
the entrance to the fuel inlet pipe. I doubt that the sex of the person
has much to do with it.

D.

"most pump fires are started by women" is because most women use a purse to
carry their money, and since they don't carry their purse with them all the
time, so for convenience, it is left in the car until needed or they have a
handy moment to get it, when the tank is filling up. The woman would
typically sit back in the car, generating a static charge through clothes
contact with the car seat, and when they exit they don't touch the car door
since it is already open. The next object they touch is the pump handle ....
boom! Since most men carry wallets, usually in their pocket, they have no
need to go back to the car. This "theory" would seem to make sense from a
socialiological viewpoint, and according to the statistics they quoted in
the said episode, is backed up by those statistics.

- Chock.

 

[Chriz]

Once upon a time Highlandish decided to write:

Quoth The Raven "Trevor Wilson"<trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> in
426344cb@news.comindico.com.au
"Chriz" <chrizizhere@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:42633f67@duster.adelaide.on.net...
Once upon a time I Caught Kate decided to write:

A good topic for mythbusters might possibly be
the myth that mobile phones are dangerous at
petrol stations

They should do a UFO thing. lol

**They should do a religion thing.

nah, religion aint real, everyone knows that.

Everyone knows religion is real. If it wasn't real, then why do they exist?

 

[Chriz]

Once upon a time Highlandish decided to write:

Quoth The Raven "David Hardie"<davidlh@nospam.optusnet.com.au> in
davidlh-1804051728090001@d211-31-93-242.dsl.nsw.optusnet.com.au
In article <42635e9e$0$5398$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, "Kath"
kathnews2@optusnet.ieatspam.com.au.dud> wrote:

HeadRush wrote:
"HERC777" <herc777@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1113803860.318266.232530@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
YEP I'm in for that... If the guys tour aus send em up really!

Aus Skeptics and all the rest are no shows.

Of course when you find out I AM the truman (why else call it
TRUE) there'll be a change in pecking order around here.

Actually, I'd say you will RUE every psychotic post you ever made
if they did investigate your claims.

He'd just claim that what they saw and heard was altered by the US
government by sending signals from a satellite straight into their
brains...

Well I'm safe, since I'm wearing a metal colander on my head today.
Otherwise, I'd be thinking like everyoneelse and we just cant have
that!

D.

i'm wearing my mirror tile armour of invisibility +4 with a +2 save
so the satelites dont see me.

....and I've been stocking up on magical remedies and junctioning them to my
defensive stats.

 

[Unknown]

"Kath" <kathnews2@optusnet.ieatspam.com.au.dud> wrote in message
news:42635e9d$0$5398$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...

Luke Webber wrote:
Chock wrote:

From memory, they concluded that the mobile phone transmissions are
not the cause, but static electricity build-up from clothes, etc
being discharged on the pump nozzle.

Yup. The tip-off was that most pump fires have been started by women.
You see, you normally discharge static when you step out of the car
whil holding onto the door. But some women have a tendency to get
back in the car to get their money out of their purses, then to get
out again without touching the door, because it's already open.

Weird. I rarely get back in the car to get my money, I get my purse out,
then get out of the car and get the petrol...

Yeah but you aren't a woman. You're a drag queen!

 

[David Hardie]

In article <42639941@x-privat.org>, "Highlandish"
<ckreskay_CURSEING@dodo.com.au> wrote:

Well I'm safe, since I'm wearing a metal colander on my head today.
Otherwise, I'd be thinking like everyoneelse and we just cant have
that!

D.

i'm wearing my mirror tile armour of invisibility +4 with a +2 save so the
satelites dont see me.

What's worse is I'm a sad enough to know why that is funny.

D.

 

[qwerty]

Firefly wrote:

UFOs are real. Alien spacecraft aren't.

Proof?

Show me one?

 

[Diceman]

Chriz wrote:

Once upon a time I Caught Kate decided to write:


A good topic for mythbusters might possibly be
the myth that mobile phones are dangerous at
petrol stations


They should do a UFO thing. lol


I suggested on the Discovery channel Mythbusters forum the idea of

testing out if a body "bounces" like in the film Terminal Velocity,
although it didn't seem to attract the attention of anyone official.
Last time I saw, the idea that a person can be sliced in half with a
single samurai sword stroke was the hot topic.

 

[qwerty]

Diceman wrote:

I suggested on the Discovery channel Mythbusters forum the idea of
testing out if a body "bounces" like in the film Terminal Velocity

No way to test this without killing someone. Buster doesn't count
as he's not a real human, so testing him wouldn't be accurate.

 

[Firefly]

"qwerty" <qwerty@qwerty.com> wrote in message
news:4263c085@dnews.tpgi.com.au...

Firefly wrote:

UFOs are real. Alien spacecraft aren't.

Proof?

Show me one?

There are lots of photos of them. Prove that they aren't alien spacecraft.

 

[qwerty]

Firefly wrote:

UFOs are real. Alien spacecraft aren't.

Proof?

Show me one?

There are lots of photos of them. Prove that they aren't alien
spacecraft.

Photos can't be verified. Show me a physical one.

Similarly, I could show you a photo of any given item and you'd
be unable to prove, beyond doubt, that the item is what it seems.

 

[Kwyjibo.]

"qwerty" <qwerty@qwerty.com> said

Firefly wrote:

UFOs are real. Alien spacecraft aren't.

Proof?

Show me one?

There are lots of photos of them. Prove that they aren't alien
spacecraft.

Photos can't be verified.

There's a picture of one at
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/112889main_tankTest.jpg

Show me a physical one.

If you want verification you could always head to the Kennedy Space Centre in
Florida for a look yourself.


--


Kwyj.

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